http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/ My gardening journal began in December 1997. In the beginning the entries are a bit erratic but by mid 1999 I was dutifully recording every gardening moment. There are photographs throughout the journal to stop it getting too boring. en-us Copyright 1997-2007 Eggyweb Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:34:37 -0800 http://backend.userland.com/rss eggy@mooseyscountrygarden.com http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120205.html Bach chamber music... Ooh, goody! What a groovy way to start the day. And my lovely flautist has presented me with a huge bag of daffodil bulbs, too. Yippee - fat bulbs! And a bag of freshly picked plums. This buay late-summer life is good. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:38:49 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120205.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120204.html Oh dear - how the mighty have fallen. I've had a hemi-demi-semi-crisis of confidence regarding the size of my one-woman country garden. Hmm... Could it be - perhaps, possibly, maybe - a little too big for me? Aargh! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:33:49 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120204.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120203.html Ha! I am the Queen of Soil Restoration and Enrichment. Compost, rotting leaves, bags of horse manure, ash, mulch... You name it, I've got it and I'm applying it to my garden. It's time I did something nice for the soil. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:12:24 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120203.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120202.html The gardening world always feels hemispherical when I start planting daffodil bulbs. Gardening friends 'up there' are enjoying their first daffodils in bloom, while I've got 650 recycled bulbs still to plant. My garden will be springing some surprises in seven months time! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:50:55 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120202.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120201.html Shape-Up-For-Life gardeners do NOT complain in their gardening journals about how hungry they are. They simply pat their middle bits (discretely) inside the gardening shorts (not the favourite ones, which are too tight) and sigh wistfully. And then they go gardening. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:48:42 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120201.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120111.html The retired older-woman's Monday is so restful. The dishes are done, Scarlatti tinkles away on the stereo, my dog is slumped in his chair snoring, the cats are lounging, all fed and relaxing - no, wait! I've shut the kitten outside by mistake. Eek! Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:46:42 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120111.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120110.html Ridiculous. Two days later and I'm still feeling sad having been outbid in a garden gnome auction. I've had to speak severely to self. Moosey, be thankful that losing some scruffy garden gnomes is all you've got to be sad about. Foolish oldish woman! Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:50:20 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120110.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120109.html A big day - garden visitors are coming! Already, before breakfast, the Shrubbery paths are cleared. And now I'm having a pile of peanut butter toast, while my big musical passion - Brahms's piano concerto (B flat major) - plays really loud. Hee hee. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:03:30 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120109.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120108.html It's a chamber music morning, and we are playing two (TWO! Oh joy!) Bach Trio Sonatas. Our trio needs a name. Head Gardener, Non-Gardening Partner, Flautist Friend... Hmm... Nothing springs to mind. HGNGPFF? Nope. The Moosey Garden Trio? A bit self-centred... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:21:54 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120108.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120107.html Some thoughts regarding semi-madness (or eccentricity, if the 'mad' word is too much of a worry). For I consider I have arrived at the Golden Age of Semi-Madness. It is the perfect time of my life to go a little peculiar... Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:54:51 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120107.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-11/summer-garden-journal-120108.html Summer sunshine, bellbirds singing so beautifully, cats behaving oddly (Escher the bouncing brown puppy stayed overnight), and my house family-full - life is really good, if one can forgive the surface interruptions (i.e. the pesky, scary aftershocks). And it's Christmas! Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:32:30 -0800 http://garden-journal-11/summer-garden-journal-120108.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120106.html It's super-windy, but I'm going to pick up all the gum bark that's fallen from the huge Eucalyptus trees. OK, more will fall tomorrow, if the wind''s still blowing. But one doesn't wait until all the weeds have popped up before weeding, does one? Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:14:34 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120106.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100305.html Today should be my Garden-All-Day day, but rain is forecast. I have gardens to tidy. I want to clear absolutely all that scruffy garden land and plant it in an easy care evergreen forest. Yes! I'm not so small that I can't think big. And get wet if I have to... Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:17:44 -0800 http://garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100305.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120105.html Hee hee. Going on a cycling man-holiday (via a library book) is terribly exciting! Early this morning (in bed in Pond Cottage) I cycled through Japan. This evening I'll be off to China. And in between I can just pop outside and do lots of good gardening. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:58:52 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120105.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120104.html Ridiculous. I've been too frightened to check on the 'progress' of my archway climbing roses, just in case... Today, alert and armed, I sneaked apprehensively into the Hazelnut Orchard. What horrors and mayhem would be waiting? Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:46:21 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120104.html